As described in Article 26 of the USATF Bylaws, 2004 is a year where
amendments to the Competition Rules are considered at the Annual Meeting. To be
considered, amendments must be submitted to the Rules Committee for
consideration no later than 90 days prior to the Annual Meeting, which is
September 2, 2004. Electronic submission is preferred, and proposals should be
submitted to both the Chair and Secretary of the Committee (john@speedfish.com,
RPodkam@aol.com). Submissions may also be
mailed to the Rules Chair at: 109 Smith Street, Charleston, SC 29403.

The following excerpts from Article 26-D outline the method for submitting a
rule amendment proposal:

"The proposed amendments shall ... show the entire section, subsection,
or paragraph, as the case may be, as it will read if adopted, with all proposed
additional language underlined or shaded, and all proposed deleted language in
double parentheses. Each proposal ... accompanied by a brief statement of the
rationale for the submission. If there is a budgetary impact, it shall be
estimated with the submission...

"All proposed amendments must first be recommended for approval at the
time of submission by someone other than the submitter who shall be either the
chair of any sport, development, or operating committee, or Rules Committee, the
president of any Association, any officer or the executive director of a
national member organization authorized by Article 5-B, or any officer of USATF.
Such approval must be in writing, dated, and placed on the proposal when
submitted. These listed approval parties may submit proposed amendments directly
without such an approval."